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Ashwath is a financial market and technology junkie. He is a cryptocurrency investor, trader, and enthusiast. He has expertise in market psychology and explaining complex technology in a simple way. He aims to battle misinformation in the cryptocurrency space.
Brave has been striding onwards towards mainstream adoption, dominating the Android market in several geographies. But its native token, Basic Attention Token (BAT) hasn't been able to find the same level of traction. Some independent content creators have found a new source of income with BAT tips as it can...
Synthetix is currently one of the most valuable products in Ethereum's open finance stack and ranks 2nd in terms of total value locked in the protocol with a whopping $175 million. From just under $2 million locked at the beginning of March 2019, when the staking yield kicked in, to...
Virgil Griffith, an Ethereum Foundation employee, will be released from custody pending trial after the bond for his bail is posted. As per Coindesk, his lawyer, Brian Klein, believes this process will take a few weeks, December 3, 2019. This saga has brought out polarising views from across the cryptocurrency...
In a surprising announcement, the Sri Lankan central bank has made a public appeal for developers who can help build a proof of concept blockchain for a KYC system to be used across the country's financial institutions. The government believes this can help the financial sector tackle several inefficiencies that...
There have been rumors doing the rounds that Kelly Loefller, CEO of Bakkt, will be appointed as the next Senator for the state of Georgia as Republican Senator Johnny Isakson is set to retire. Although Georgia's Governor, Brian Kemp, is defying Trump by appointing Loeffler, Bloomberg reports that she will...
For the last month, Twitter and Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, has been going around Africa to understand the state of the region, most likely from a financial services and payment perspective. According to Forbes, Dorsey met Bitcoin business owners at a meetup in Nigeria and subsequently tweeted that Africa will...
The block reward halving from 25 to 12.5 LTC per block was expected to be a bullish fundamental event for the network, but the exact inverse has occurred. Ever since price failed to take off post the halving, hashrate has declined 68 percent from the top as miners turned their...
Less than a year after a block reorg that caused $100,000 worth of double-spending, VertCoin has seen yet another 51 percent attack where 603 blocks were reorganized on the chain. As per Crypto Briefing, a mere 125 BTC, worth $29, was sent to the hacker's wallet, but the larger implications...
Virgil Griffith, a research scientist with the Ethereum Foundation and citizen of the United States, has been arrested under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in line with the accusation that Griffith helped North Korea understand how they can use cryptocurrency to evade United States economic sanctions on their country....
Consulting and auditing giant KPMG has announced the launch of KPMG Origins: a multi-purpose supply chain network for a wide variety of industries, ranging from food production to financial services for the Asia-Pacific region. Producers today are being held accountable for the sustainability practices they inculcate during the production lifecycle,...
